15 month old is really starting to challenge me

My son who is almost 16 months is getting really challenging for me. A lot of the stuff he does is not that bad in comparison to others I understand but it's challenging for me. I'm having a baby in 2.5 weeks and have been on maternity leave for a week and it's just gotten increasingly harder. He only took one 20 minute nap today and threw a tantrum to stay awake after. He is standing in the bath (he doesn't stand on his own yet) and is trying to play with the bath faucet (it is covered.) I don't know if it's because I'm pregnant or if I'm overreacting. Today was just really hard with him and I'm getting worried about what's gonna happen when the baby comes. I'm open to advice but just mainly venting.

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Definitely the age! And I’m sure being pregnant and dealing with all those hormones probably makes everything feel even more overwhelming too. My LO is 15 months and man, he has been SO spicy lately 😂 I always joke with my husband that we’re basically getting bullied by a tiny human.
Just try to be patient with him and more importantly be patient with yourself too. Take breaks when you can and don’t feel bad for needing a moment. And give him some grace too. I feel like sometimes we get so frustrated because we don’t understand why they’re acting a certain way, but they’re still so little and are learning how to understand and express all these big feelings. It can be hard on both but you’re doing a good job mama. ❤️

I was using the restroom the other day and my 15 month old of course has to be in there with me. She was trying to climb up my pants and grab me while also holding a hair brush. She dropped the brush and it broke into pieces( how the actual **** that happens I have no idea) but I go to pick up the pieces while still sitting there and she punches me in the open eye…. The fact that all of this happened while I’m just trying to use the bathroom 🤦‍♀️ bully is correct 😂

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I'm kinda going to miss it just being the two of us

I'm 19 weeks and I was just thinking how it's going to be quite the change for my husband and I when the time comes (around February). We get along perfectly and I don't have any worries about us transitioning to parenthood.
It's just I'm going to miss snuggling before we sleep through the night. Going out on a whim and take no time to get ready; only putting my shoes on and heading out. Staying out late whenever or driving an hour out to try our luck at the slots. Or going to the bar for dinner and coming back home to watch anime with more brewskis.

But we did plan this and I have zero regrets. We get to start a family and that feels more fulfilling to me than partying with my husband all the time. It'll just be sometimes after my little man doesn't need me as much lol.

I don't regret anything especially with how much support we have. I'm anticipating a big change and I think it's valid I feel that way.

Massive nursery shortage

Anyone else not got a nursery spot? I’ve been on the wait list for a May 27 spot since the beginning of the year and no hope. I’m on 3 wait lists and also childminder wait lists too.

Since the funding came in it’s gone crazy

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I’d love some opinions please! 😅 I was seeing a guy and we recently fell out, so I told him I’d give him some space. We’re meant to have a weekend together next week, but when I asked whether it was still happening so I could arrange childcare, he responded quite bluntly and gave me an ultimatum. I didn’t engage with it and reiterated that I was giving him space.

It’s now been a week and I need to know whether next weekend is actually happening so I can sort childcare. Would you message him and ask directly, or leave it because he already knows the weekend is meant to be happening and that I need to arrange childcare?

How do you have time for anything?

Babies just turned 4 months. My OH works from home for himself mon-thurs (maybe 6 hours max a day) we have a toddler that goes to nursery tues-thurs and we get help from my MIL on Mondays. And even then, finding the time to clean/eat/wash clothes/walk dogs etc is impossible. How on earth do people do it?

I feel like I'm running on fumes and wanting to strangle my husband at the weekend for not pulling his weight.

1 on 1 time with our 2 year old!

I want to make some one on one time for our 2 year old with mummy and daddy. I’m exclusively breastfeeding our youngest so I can’t spend too long away from him. Looking for recommendations of fun things we can do for some lovely bonding time! We would like to try and make it a weekly thing that we can look forward to 😊

Am I overthinking?

Yesterday evening when getting my 20 months old boy ready for bath, I noticed 2 significant bruises on his lower back towards the bottom. He's been at the nursery all day and didn't have those bruises in the morning before dropping him off.

So of course some alarms start ringing in my head. I took pictures and sent them to the nursery asking what happened and how come I wasn't informed of the incident.

Their response was that nobody saw anything, little one was absolutely fine all day, didn't cry or anything so they're unsure how the bruising occurred. He was involved in normal activities like singing reading playing in the sand etc but nothing particularly stands out.

Tbh he had some small bruises in the past that again had gone unnoticed and their responses were the same.

Now I get that children can sustain accidental injuries and don't want to assume anything bad had happened, but I can't help it, my brain inevitably thinks that.

What would you do in this situation? Would you let it go? Would you escalate it further to ofsted maybe? Or am I simply overreacting?

P.s. little one is happy at the nursery and no longer cries at drop offs or pick ups.